Unboxing the D9 swag bag

1 June 2011

Transcript

-Hi folks, this is Rafe Needleman at the D Conference.
I'm here to unbox the show.
Now, as you guys know, D is one of the most explosive high end tech events on the planet [unk] a lot of a guy like me and I don't know, but one of the hallmarks of D is that they give out ridiculous amount of Swag at every show, and this is no exception.
It all comes in this enormous bag, and I'm gonna show what's inside of it as well as a couple of things that wouldn't even fit inside.
There're a couple of groups.
There's just swag, there's tech.
There're offers, apparel, and then at the last I'm gonna show you the what are they think department.
Let's get started with just swag.
Hand me the light.
Get this bag unzipped and open it up and show you what we got.
In the just swag department, Fanhattan with an iPod case.
Fanhattan makes very cool
movie finding service, which I've got a review coming up on.
So, don't miss that.
The will be on our D9 coverage.
Houlihan Lokey I guess is a law firm, but I don't know.
Water bottle.
Google send us a little android keepsake.
I got [unk].
Yeah, I'm feeling lucky dude, cute.
uBeam lollipop, Lenovo deck of cards.
All things D is putting on this conference has a pen for us [unk] accessories [unk] snow.
I don't know what thing is this.
This looks like a folding carry bag and that's it in just swag department.
In the offers department, LinkedIn sponsoring a premium service agreement just like free premium LinkedIn.
I didn't know what this was.
I thought somebody had put their empty coffee cup in my bag when I opened it up.
This is from the [unk].
This is 100% compostable thing with a money in it,
not real money.
The [unk] has 250 dollars in your name to alleviate world hunger, very nice and a binder clip.
Alright, we get to the good stuff.
In the apparel department, the T-shirt from eRider solutions and a really nice hoody from conference itself.
You can get a little chilly down here, on the coast.
I mean it might drop to 65 degrees here, so you need more.
Let's get to the * shall we.
Here's what we got.
First of all, Lenovo making up for their deck of cards has a mini wireless keyboard.
Wow, that's weird, but cool.
Adobe photoshop light room free software.
They still link software on this.
Here it is.
That's petty neat.
A Sony bloggie, this is a competitor of the flip.
Well except the foot is no more.
I actually have one of these.
I know if this is exact same model.
This is a really nice little flip like camera.
I recommend it.
Very nice image stabilization.
As you can see, you have picture of it.
Pogoplug
has the biggest product in the bag.
The Pogoplug video instant stream gizmo.
You put your drives on it to connect to your network and you have a little [unk] plus an upgrade to some premium service.
So, we can access that all over the web, very nice product.
I have an older one of this.
very cool stuff.
And last in the tech group, check this up.
The HP Veer.
This is the new palm phone.
Web OS phone from HP.
This is a small smart phone.
I'm very much look forward to trying this guy out here.
Alright, that's it for the tech.
Finally, in the What Were They Thinking Department, there are 2 items, a corkscrew, the Rabbit wine corkscrew.
This is a very nice product, but is this from Rabbit?
No, this is from new star connecting you to what matters most, your alcohol.
And speaking of alcohol, I got to get up to reach it.
This is gonna knock you out.
Pirates of the Caribbean only on cinema, big box, what is it?
A box set of all pirates, a special book?
No.
Hang on awhile on this back here.
Everybody needs one of these if you are a Pirates of the Caribbean Fan.
I'm getting out the styro here.
Styrofoam, what could it be.
I'll tell you what it is.
It's a crystal skull.
Everybody needs one of these especially everybody is coming to a high end resort and has to pack all these stuff home.
Actually, I'll get this for my son.
I'm sure he'll love it.
Anyway, that is it for the swag bag at D9 at the Unboxing of the Swag bag.
I'm Rafe Needleman for CNET news.
We have
a lot of great coverage up this conference coming up.
Eric Schmidt is speaking Tuesday night.
I will be covering that as well as other reporters.
I'll be covering from remote and tomorrow, Wednesday, we'll have more coverage of the D9 and finally it's is closing on Thursday.
So, that's it, enjoy the show.